Mark Reid insists he does not know why he was attacked (Image: Dominic Cocozza)

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BY his own admission, Mark Reid has been stabbed eight times since he was 15.

The 30-year-old also freely admits he’s no stranger to trouble with the law.

And when two knifemen attacked him in the street in broad daylight this week, he claims he couldn’t work out why – because there are so many possible reasons.

“I have hundreds of things from my past,” the scar-faced dad of one confessed.

Reid, 30, hardly fits the image of an innocent bystander – even though he says he’s “keeping his head down” these days and hasn’t been in jail since 2011.

But he insists that this week’s attackers crossed the line when they tried to stab his mum’s dog.

Reid said he was walking the Staffordshire bull terrier, called Dolly, when the knifemen’s car stopped beside him and a friend in the Glenburn area of Paisley.

He claimed: “A motor pulled up but I didn’t think anything. The next thing a guy ran round from the driver’s door.

“The dug ran up to him wagging her tail, thinking she was getting a clap. He had an ice pick in his left hand and he tried to hit the dug.

“I ran at him and that’s when I was stabbed on the arm.

“There was no danger my dug was getting hit with an ice pick.

“It was a cowardly attack. It’s a totally different ball game when someone tries to put an ice pick through your dug.”

Reid claimed he was also struck by a machete as he tried to get away from the attackers.

He said: “I fear for my life. Every time I’m in Glenburn something happens.”

Reid shows one of the wounds he says he received (Image: Dominic Cocozza)

Reid had stitches in his arm and leg and suffered minor chest wounds. His friend Ross Lawson, 33, was taken to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow with head, shoulder and hand injuries.

Reid says he was slashed in the face at 15, hit on the leg with a machete at 16, stabbed in the wrist at 18 and knifed in the head at 20.

A knifeman punctured his lung in 2006, someone snapped a sword on his head in 2008 and he suffered a second punctured lung in 2011.

After this week’s incident, he was arrested over an outstanding warrant. He says it relates to alleged knife possession, breach of the peace and vandalism.

Reid appeared at Paisley Sheriff Court on Tuesday. He denied the charges and was freed on bail.

Police said a member of the public raised the alarm after Monday’s attack, which involved two suspects in a maroon Citroen Berlingo. One attacker wore dark clothes and a yellow and black skip hat and the second also wore a hat.

Detective Sergeant Gordon McCrae said: “We are trying to establish a motive but believe the victims were the intended targets.”

Anyone with information should call police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.